We sure are getting a lot of choice recently when it comes to media players . Yesterday i came to know about Winamp 5.5 which was recently released , My friends Brown Baron and Sizlopedia has done a nice review of it . Then i came to know that even a new version of Real Player ,i.e. Real Player 11 is also out and it is being touted as the best real player till date. (more…)

This is an interesting hack for Vista through which you can enable “Slow Motion” animation that will work if you are holding the “shift” key while minimizing , maximizing , closing a window.

This will work if you can run the Windows Aero glass theme . To make this work , just download this file . Unzip it and duble click it to add it to the Windows Registry . Two new values will be added to the registry . Just restart and the effect will be visible .

via How To Geek

I have been using Windows Vista for 3 months now and one error that has always annoyed me is the “COM Surrogate Error ” . This error generally occurs when you open a folder thaty contains a lot of media files . The error is

Beleive me it is irritating . This error is mainly caused due to codecs i,e Divx , Nero etc which might not be compatible with Vista . Some possible solutions to this problem are (more…)

You can launch your favourite applications in Vista using a combination of ‘[Windows] key + number ‘ . All you have to do is to add the shortcut to applications that you want to start in the Quick Launch Toolbar . You can do this by a simple drag & Drop operation . You can have a maximum of 10 shortcuts there , by default you are provided there with a “Show Desktop ” and “Switch Between Windows” shortcuts .

From Left to right , the first shortcut on the quick launch toolbar is assigned to the [Windows] + 1 , second to [Windows] + 2 and so on . The tenth one is assigned to [Windows] + 0. The good thing is that you can rearrange the shortcuts in any way you want . (more…)

Batch Image Resizer is cool utility software that lets you resize several images at once with a sincle click . Several other things which it can do are

• Change Format
• Rename
• Sharpen
• Add Stamp
• Rotate

All you need to do is to add several files to the list , set there customization optins and then start .

The only weak thing is that it is not a freeware , you can only wok with 6 images in the Trial Version .It works in Vista too .

This is a simple tricl for resizing Desktop Icons in Windows Vitsa .

1)Single Click on an icon .

2)Press the ‘Ctrl’ button on the keyborad and use the mouse wheel to resize icons while keeping the ‘Ctrl’ button pressed . (more…)